NO MAN'S BLOG — Well, they suck. I’ve been meaning to write this post for a long time now and while I’m 2 days behind deadline to give one of my clients another monthly report I have to take a break and spit it off my chest. Over the past 8 months I tried and tested practically all of the key players in ’social media monitoring services’: Radian6, BuzzMetrics, Brandwatch, Attentio, Techrigy (SM2) etc. And I have very few good words to say about them. The few good words will be in relation to the people who work at these companies - these are usually nice people. But the software and service is verging on epic fail - very problematic and clunky solutions wrapped in a big bold shiny (but rather hollow) promises...

This week we’re announcing version 3.0 of the dashboard and every day we’ll post here a little more detail about what the new features do. The feature we’re most excited about is the new Attentio ‘Brand Maps’ which we believe has the potential to disrupt the Market Research industry. How so? Well first let’s start with...